CHANGE IS LIFE - LIFE IS CHANGE

If you didn’t know this before, I’m pretty sure you do now.

I’ve always considered myself very adaptable and resilient when it comes to change and disappointment. But I gotta tell ya, this year has me screaming ENOUGH!

You too?

And so it goes, this is not my typical “Happy Thanksgiving” blog. Being grateful goes without saying, but I’m tapped out when it comes to change and the bizarre.

That being said, I realize now, there is a truth I live by but apparently needs to continue to grow and solidify itself me. And that is that whatever I’m going through or is causing me stress, the best way to get through it is to just sit in it, breathe it in, breathe it out. That’s what makes room to process and create space for guidance and wisdom to bathe your heart and mind, washing away the stress and anxiety.

There’s never been a time when anxiety is palpable, everywhere I turn, in everyone’s eyes, in their words, the way they move their bodies. The energy feels like sharp, jagged lines, and foggy, gray clouds.

If I can still my soul and listen to the whispers of change, I am reassured that change is not just annoying interruptions, they rewrite our expectations and shape our perception. I can sit in the truth that the story is always changing and I am guaranteed nothing – except change itself.

LIFE IS CHANGE – CHANGE IS LIFE.

Living in Oklahoma, the weather always reminds me that anything can change in the twinkle of an eye. Literally, the sun is bright, and 80 degrees, and in moments, clouds roll in, temps drop drastically and we’re reaching for a sweater. I’m not kidding, we can have a 40 degree shift in a matter of hours. It happened recently as a matter of fact. We were having 70 and 80 degree days, and the temps dropped to freezing overnight and we were greeted to a major ice storm the next morning.

That forces sudden pivots of everything. In this situation, pivoting is simply an unquestioned survival norm. Pivot the air conditioning to heat; pivot the tank top to a sweater; pivot iced tea to hot tea or hot chocolate.

Then it gets a little tougher when we were forced to pivot from electricity to whatever resources are available.

I see now that in the same way, we are all being asked to make the kind of tough pivots to whatever resources we can access.

The energy in the world is forcing us to rethink everything, figure out new ways to do just simple things, new ways to communicate, work and get through the day. Think about it, when in history has society had to pivot everything, including around our children’s education and mental health.

Yep, mental health is a huge pivot. It’s probably the main reason I’m writing this. I know, it feels like too much, more than we ever thought we would have to deal with.

But, it’s still just change. It’s life. We are characters in a movie with lots of unexpected plot twists and turns. Isn’t it funny how we love that in a movie, until we’re the real character?

What if we could just be in our movie, engrossed, transported through wild changes.

I know, for many, Thanksgiving looks and feels very different, and for many different reasons and pretty much on every level.

I remind you – the change that brings us the beauty of fall colors is actually the decay of the leaves? Do you remember the song by Pete Seeger made popular by the Byrds, “To everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn”? It was based on the Bible passage in Ecclesiastes.

It’s always been a favorite of mine but wow, does it carry much more meaning, healing and peace to my soul today.

I hope it does for you too! And helps you to pivot and walk fearlessly into the big changes that are our life. There is a time for decay and a time to grow, but we don’t get to change the season, we can’t time travel to spring or to healing.

Listen here: To Everything There is a Season

Pivoting gratefully,